A major cellphone outage ravaged the AT&T service in the US on Thursday (and had some knock-on effects for Verizon and T-Mobile customers) leading to thousands of customers complaining about a lack of mobile signal and internet. 12 hours later, AT&T reported it had restored cellular service to all customers.
The issues started at around 3.30am ET, according to Downdetector with AT&T seemingly the hardest hit. Other services like Verizon had similar down reports but it's now believed those were mostly due to other carrier customers trying to reach those on the non-functional AT&T network. The main hotspots for issues were in Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston, though customers from numerous other states took to X (formerly Twitter) to report outages.
